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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.hawkular.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Community supported by Red Hat

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1983

2014

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

PHP

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

rights management via user accounts

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